Show log message in log-details in log-visualization

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  • Grafana 12.2.0 running on Docker

  • What are you trying to achieve?

    • visualize log-messages in the “Log” panel and do not use word wrap for the log-lines, but see the the log message (that is way longer than the panel is wide) in the details that can be opened

  • How are you trying to achieve it?

    • cant, because that feature does not exist

Here in a screenshot you can see my log-visualisation, with a simple query.:

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I do not want to enable word wrap for the lines because that would bloat the entire log to infinity (its unreadable). I want to see the log message here in the details. That would make a lot of sense from UI/UX persepectiv, because that where you are expecting the log-message. Is that a feature that can easily be added? Its just another field that needs to be printed here.

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How are others handling that kind of task? Scrolling left to right in the log is also not really helpful as one easily looses the context of a message.
Wondering how come that Im the only one to complain about this?

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What kind of part of the log that you need to show instead of the whole line and most of them have same information?

You could use line format and could see the documentation.

Regards,

Fadjar Tandabawana

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Hi,

ok lemme explain it in more detail:
In the standard view (as one can see in my screenshot) of the dashboard visualizer “Log”, the log-message (the body of the message) is shown in a long line. One has to horizontally scroll left to right to see the entire message.
It would be to be expected, that the entire log-message would be presented in the details again, when opening the details of the log, and not just the labels.

There is currently no implementation that could handle this. This is a feature that needs implementation, which is what Im requesting here.

Thank you for your understanding. if there are more questions, feel free to ask them